Paul M Dorman High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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The Recipe For A Winning Season What do you get when you take thirty-four athletes, add determina- tion, training, and skill and put it all to- gether? The answer is the J.V. football team. With a record of 6-5, the J.V. foot- ball team played a rigorous schedule. As head coach Tommy Owens says, We played several good teams and challenged them very well. We lost three overtime games that would have been big victories had we won. According to Owens, the toughest games were against Spartanburg. Gaffney, and Byrnes. However, he says, Any time we took to the field to play another team, it was a big game. The J.V. players attended camp with the varsity during the summer and practiced hard to prepare for the sea- son. Defensive tackle Kelly Norton says. I learned self-discipline and tol- erance. It's a lot of hard work but well worth it. Linebacker Ronald Miller says, This year's team was better than last year's. We are improving and playing together better as a team. Miller plans to be playing for the varsity next year. Fullback Eric Davis says this year's experience was valuable. I think our hardest game was against Northwes- tern, Davis says. They used the wish- bone. and we weren't used to that since we use the l-formation. Owens praises other key players: tackle Todd Stoats, quarterback Rick Lee, wide receiver and back Mark Robinson, and tailback and defensive back D.C. Black. Placekicker Keith Cannon adds the extra point to make the score 7-0 over Broome. With fourth down and less than a yard to go, Donnie Simmons ekes out first down yardage on the quarterback sneak. J.V. FOOTBALL 6-5 DOGMAN 7 Sport anburg 13 DOGMAN 18 Broome 0 DOGMAN 20 EastsiOe 14 DORMAN 21 Borfng Springs 7 DORMAN 18 Union 7 DOGMAN 14 Northwestern 20 DORMAN 14 Spartanburg 27 DOGMAN 14 Gaffney 20 DOGMAN 21 Rock t« 14 DOGMAN 14 Byrnes 20 Back Scott Rhodes looks tor a hole around the outside in order to pick up a first down. Looking over the offensive formation, quarterback Don- nie Simmons prepares to receive the snap from center. 24 J.V. Football

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Accepting The Bitter With The Sweet The second half of the season was not as productive as the first half as the eighth-ranked Cavaliers suffered their first loss to 0-5 Northwestern. 24-7. The Cavaliers rushed for just forty-five yards against a fired-up Trojan de- fense. The Cavalier defense, which hdd surrendered an average of only three points per game, now yielded twenty-six points to Northwestern. Coming off their first loss, the Cava- liers had but one week to prepare for their nemesis, the Spartanburg Vikings. The lead seesawed through the first two quarters with the Cavaliers holding a 14-7 halftime lead. The Vikings tied the score 14-14 in the third quarter, but the Cavaliers fought back to take a 21-14 lead. With less than a minute left in regulation time. Viking quarterback Chip Fergu- son lofted a sixty-two-yard pass to Randy Briggs to tie the score at 21-21. In the first overtime, the Vikings scored first, followed quickly by a Goodwin touchdown to knot the score at 28-28. In the second over- time, penalties and mistakes gave the Cavaliers a fourth-and sixteen with no points to show for their efforts. On the Vikings' offensive play, they scored to give them a hard-fought 34-28 double overtime victory. This emotional loss took more than a week from which to recuperate. The Cavaliers lost the next week 21-7 to the Gaffney Indians before rebounding to a 23-14 victory over the Rock Hill Bearcats. Traveling to Byrnes, the Cavaliers fell victim to the Betsill Attack 21-14, end- ing the regular season with a 6-4 re- cord. By virtue of being a Big 16 team, the Cavaliers traveled to Greenwood for the first round of the state play-offs. A much larger Greenwood team hand- ed the Cavaliers a 17-13 defeat and finished the season for the Cavaliers. As the season ended, Coach Clark said, We had a great group of boys. The senior leadership was commend- able. I couldn't have asked for more. Vance Hammond. Don Rogers, and Wayne Moorman made the Herald- Journal All-Area Team. Tackle Ham- mond had sixty-seven individual tack- les and eight quarterback sacks for the season. Tackle Moorman had nine- ty-five individual tackles and eleven quarterback sacks. End Rogers had 117 individudl tackles with sixteen of these tackles coming in one game. Varsity Football 23

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J.V. FOOTBALL: Front: Mark Robinson (1). Ken Hugnes (2). Garre 4 Lyles (3). Char'es Turner (4). Douglas Mormon (6). Richard Lee (12). Keith Cannon (20). Jett cerguson (21) 2nd: Ron Varner (22). Blake Ronton (23). Michael Turner (24). Myron Massey (25). Ronald Miner (30). Scott Rhodes (31). Rodney Johnson (32) 3rd: Cla- rence Wiikms (52). Derrick B'ack (33). Eric Davis (36). Maurice Be hea (40). Tim Jackson (44). Joey Justice (50). ChiD Cook (53). Donnie Sim- mons (17] 4th: .Jason Gardner (54). Bobby Soles- bee (63). Todd Gergiey (65). Ke'iy Norton (67). Richie So'esbee (73). Reese Stafford (75). Chris Cobb (77 Back:Tony Covan (76). David Green (80). Todd Hording (81). Jamie Nelson (85) In position for the upcoming play, Todd Har- ding listens lor the snap count so he will not jump early. Between plays, quarterback Donnie Simmons instructs Eric Davis, Todd Harding, and the rest of the offensive line to listen for the correct signal call. Rolling out of the pocket, quarterback Donnie Simmons looks for a wide open receiver. Blocking the way tor back Eric Davis to make first down yardage on a second down play are Chip Cook and the remainder of the offen- sive line. J. V. Football 25